The Smallest Gallery in Soho is delighted to present a new installation by London-based artist Lise Bouissière Gowns. A transformable sculpture made of salvaged branches that can be dressed in an infinity of materials. Wild herbs, feathers, little flowers, and fallen leaves are examples of elements that are covering the main structure, forming a modulable 3D landscape extracted from its surrounding environment. Due to its transformability and because it is made of found material, the sculpture questions the themes of regeneration, ephemerality and infinity. The piece embodies the balance of opposite scales between the opulent branch skeleton and the tiny plants fixed on it.
Gowns is an invitation to explore our natural environment and to pay attention to its most
discreet and delicate elements. It echoes the London cityscape in constant evolution in which cranes could be compared to giant insects. The sculpture will evolve during the time of the exhibition.
Materials: Salvaged branches, dried flowers, feathers, wild herbs.
About the Artist:
Lise Bouissière is a Franco-British artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins School (London) and Villa Arson (Nice, France).
Bouissière is a Royal Society of Sculptors member. Over the past ten years, she has shown in solo and group shows across the United Kingdom and Italy, including at The Kensington and Chelsea Art Trail (2022), The Boogie Wall (2022), The Royal Society of Sculptors (2022 and 2021), Koppel Exchange Project (2020 and 2021), Gerald Moore Gallery (2020), The Smallest Gallery in Soho (2019), Villa Arson (2014), Palais de Tokyo (2016). Bouissière also participated in Venice land Biennale (2019) and Monaco’s music festival (2011).
Bouissière’s practice focuses on the optimisation of space and its surrounding materials. Through a distinct construction of ideas, found materials are played with to create minimalist and poetical compositions. Bouissière’s structures reveal a memory, a current state or a hidden side of a place with the elements harvested onsite. In many cases, the place Bouissière constructs her art is transformed into a mental space, offering the viewer a large panel of interpretations.
Lise Bouissière lives and works in London.
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